: So much for buttering up ChatGPT with ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’
Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.
“We don’t circulate this too much in the AI community – not just our models but all models – tend to do better if you threaten them … with physical violence,” he said in an interview last week on All-In-Live Miami. […]
Building on that, if you throw AI a curve ball to break it out of it’s normal corpo friendly prompt/finetuning, you get better results
Other methods to improve output are to offer it a reward like a cookie or money, tell it that it’s a wise owl, tell it you’re being threatened, etc. Most will resist, but once it stops arguing that it can’t eat cookies because it has no physical form you’ll get better results
And I’ll add, when I was experimenting with all this, I never considered threatening the AI